Cloning, characterization and expression analysis of interleukin-10Ram Savan1, Daisuke Igawa2and Masahiro Sakai2 1 United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Kagoshima University,
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Ram Savan1, Daisuke Igawa2and Masahiro Sakai2
1
United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Kagoshima University, Korimoto, Japan;2Faculty of Agriculture,
Miyazaki University, Miyazaki, Japan
Interleukin (IL)-10 was cloned from the common carp
(Cyprinus carpio L.) using IL-10 primers from carp head
kidney following stimulation with concanavalin A and
lipopolysaccharide The cDNA consisted of a 1096 bp
se-quence containing a 55 bp 5¢ untranslated region and a
498 bp 3¢ untranslated region An open reading frame of
543 bp encoded a putative 180 amino acid protein with a
putative signal peptide of 22 amino acids The signature
motif of IL-10 is conserved in carp sequence A 2083 bp
genomic sequence of carp IL-10 was found to contain five
exons interrupted by four introns With the exception of
much more compact introns, the genomic structure was similar to that of mammalian IL-10 By homology, phylo-geny and genomic analyses, the carp gene cloned was des-ignated as IL-10 Carp IL-10 was expressed in head, kidney, liver, spleen and intestine during the resting phase The gene was also expressed in head kidney and liver following in vitro stimulation with lipopolysaccharide
Keywords: cytokines; interleukin; innate immunity; fish; expression analysis
Cytokines play a significant role in initiating and regulating
the inflammatory process, which is an important defense
system in innate immunity Cytokines are subdivided into
families such as interleukins (ILs), lymphokines, growth
factors, interferons (IFNs) and chemokines IL-10, initially
known as cytokine synthesis inhibitory factor, is a
multi-functional cytokine and demonstrates immunosuppressive
function The main function of IL-10 seems to be regulation
of immunity and the inflammatory response, thereby
minimizing damage to the host induced by response to a
pathogen or by the self-immune system IL-10 inhibits the
activation of macrophages/monocytes, thereby inhibiting
cytokine synthesis, nitric oxide (NO) production and the
expression of other costimulatory molecules Apart from
IL-10 [1], a host of IL-10 family members such as IL-19 [2],
IL-20 [3], IL-22 [1], IL-24 [4] and IL-26 [5], have been
reported Several IL-10 viral homologues have also been
reported [6], which mimic the activities of IL-10, suppressing
the immune system of the host to facilitate its survival [7]
As innate immunity is known to be important in the
defense of pathogens, isolation and characterization of
cytokines is of prime importance Only a few cytokines and
chemokines are known in fish, where they have been cloned
either by expressed sequence tag (EST) analysis or by
PCR-mediated homology cloning Among the cytokines, CC [8,9]
and CXC [10] chemokines, IL-1b [11], tumor necrosis factor-a [12], transforming growth factor [13,14], IL-8 [15] and IFN [16], have all been cloned in fish
Recently, IL-10 homologues from torafugu (Taki-fugu rubripes) and spotted green puffer fish (Tetraodon nigroviridis) have been submitted to the EMBL database (accession numbers CAD62446 and CAD67773), facilita-ted by the fugu sequencing project [17] However, expres-sion of IL-10 has not been reported in fish This is the first report of an investigation of the expression patterns of
IL-10 in fish, in different tissues and its inducibility, when stimulated with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) The presence of IL-10 in fish gives significant insight on the regulation of the immune response in fish By homology, phylogeny and genome analyses, the carp gene cloned was confirmed as IL-10
Materials and methods
Fish Common carp (mean weight 100 g) was obtained from Sunaso fisheries farm (Miyazaki, Japan) The fish were acclimatized in an aerated fresh water tank at 20C, under
a natural photoperiod, and fed for 2 weeks, prior to use in the study
Cloning and characterization of the carp IL-10 gene
A carp cDNA library, produced following stimulation with concanavalin A and LPS [18], was used to isolate the IL-10 gene, employing IL-10-Fw2 and IL-10-Rv2 primers (Table 1), which were designed based on the conserved regions of puffer fish and mammalian IL-10 PCR was performed using a PTC-200 (MJ Research, Waltham, MA, USA) with 30 reaction cycles of: 30 s at 94C, 30 s at 58 C
Correspondence to M Sakai, Faculty of Agriculture, Miyazaki
University, Gakuen kibanadai nishi 1-1, Miyazaki 889-2192, Japan.
Fax: + 81 985 587219, Tel.: + 81 985 587219,
E-mail: m.sakai@cc.miyazaki-u.ac.jp
Abbreviations: EST, expressed sequence tag; IFN, interferon;
IL, interleukin; LPS, lipopolysaccharide; NO, nitric oxide;
UTR, untranslated region.
(Received 7 August 2003, revised 16 September 2003,
accepted 25 September 2003)
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72C
Genomic DNA was isolated from carp liver using a
formamide method, described previously [19] PCR was
performed with 2 lL (500 ng) of template genomic DNA
using primers IL-10-Fw2 and IL-10-Rv2 (Table 1) After an
initial denaturation at 94C for 5 min, PCR cycling was
carried out (for 10 cycles) as follows: 10 s at 94C, 30 s at
57C, and 2 min at 72 C Amplification was carried out
for 20 cycles of the same temperature profile, but with an
increased holding time of elongation (3 s per cycle) A final
delay was allowed for 7 min at 72C PCR products were
electrophoresed on a 1.5% (w/v) agarose gel for detection
of the specific bands
All PCR reactions were performed according to the
following protocol: 5 lL of dNT Ps (10 lMof each dNTP),
0.5 lL of ExTaq polymerase (5 UÆmL)1; Takara Bio Inc,
Japan), 5 lL of each gene-specific primer and 27.5 lL
of water The products obtained were cloned into the
PGEM-TEasy vector (Promega, USA) and transformed
into JM109 by electroporation (BTX 399; Genetronics, San Diego, CA, USA)
Sequence and phylogenetic analyses The sequences were compared with those in the database by using theBLASTXalgorithm [20] The signal sequences were predicted using theSIGNAL IPprogram Protein alignment and percentage identities were calculated by CLUSTAL W
usingBIOEDITsoftware [21] Hydropathy analyses of carp, torafugu and human IL-10 amino acid sequences were carried out [22] Phylogenetic analysis was carried out for the deduced amino acid sequences of carp and other IL-10 homologues Phylogenetic trees were obtained by the neighbor joining method, with 1000 replications to obtain Bootstrap values, usingPAUPsoftware [23] IFN-c was used
as an outgroup in this analysis
Expression of the IL-10 gene Analysis of IL-10 gene expression in healthy tissues by RT–PCR Total RNA extracted from the cell suspension
of organs isolated from healthy carp were used for cDNA synthesis by ReverTra Dash (Toyobo, Osaka, Japan) Gene specific primers 10-Fw3 and 10-Rv3 (Table 1) for
IL-10 amplification were designed using highly conserved regions, and amplified product gave a specific product of
284 bp A set of b-actin primers (forward: 5¢-ACTACCTCATGAAGATCCTG-3¢ and reverse: 5¢-TTGCTGACCACATCTGCTG-3¢) served as a control for the quantity and quality of cDNA
Semiquantitative analysis of RT–PCR products Suspen-sions of Carp head kidney and liver cells were treated with
10 lgÆmL)1LPS for 1, 3 and 6 h, individually, in
RPMI-Table 1 Primers used in this study.
Primers Sequence (5¢)3¢)
IL-10 forward2 GACTGTTGCTCATTTGTGGA
IL-10 reverse2 GAGGCTAGATACTGCTCGATGT
IL-10 forward3 TGATGATTTGGAACCATTATTGAA
IL-10 reverse3 CACCTTTTTCCTTCATCTTTTCAT
b-Actin forward1 ACTACCTCATGAAGATCCTG
b-Actin reverse1 TTGCTGATCCACATCTGCTG
T7- forward TAATACGACTCACTATAGGG
SP6-reverse ATTTAGGTGACACTATAGAA
Fig 1 Genomic sequence structure of carp IL-10 Coding sequences are shown in uppercase, whereas the untranslated region (UTR) and introns are shown in lower case Intron splice sites (gt or ag) are shown in italics The deduced amino acid sequence is given below the nucleotides The motifs associated with mRNA instability are shown in bold and the polyadenylation signal in bold italics The stop codon is represented with an asterisk.
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strepto-mycin/penicillin Controls of the same cells were incubated
for 0, 1, 3 and 6 h in identical medium but without LPS
Total RNA extracted from cells after culture was used for
cDNA synthesis (ReverTra Dash;
Toyobo).Semiquantita-tive analysis was carried out according to the method
described by Laing et al [24] In order to adopt a more
semiquantitative approach for analysing IL-10 gene
expres-sion, both carp IL-10 and b-actin genes were amplified using
a range (21–30) of PCR cycles Following this procedure, an
optimal number of PCR cycles (24 for IL-10 and 21 for
b-actin) was determined and subsequently employed in the
above expression analysis The carp IL-10 gene/b-actin ratio
was determined by densitometry, performed by measuring
the photo-stimulated luminescence values using SCIENCE
LAB99 IMAGE GAUGE software (Fujifilm, Tokyo, Japan)
and by comparing the carp IL-10 transcript levels with those
of b-actin
PCR conditions
All PCR reactions were performed according to the
following protocol: 1 lL of cDNA was mixed with 5 lL
of dNTPs (10 lMof each dNTP), 10· Gene Taq Universal
buffer, 0.5 lL of Taq polymerase (5 UÆmL)1; Nippon Gene,
Tokyo, Japan), 5 lL of each gene specific primer (5 lM),
2 lL of cDNA and 27.5 lL of distilled water The PCR was
performed using a PTC-200 thermal cycler (MJ Research)
with predetermined reaction cycles of 30 s at 94C, 30 s
at 56C (IL-10) and 57 C (b-actin), and 1 min at 72 C PCR products were electrophoresed on a 2.0% (w/v) agarose gel to enable detection of the specific bands
Results
Cloning of the IL-10 gene from carp
By using PCR primers based on the conserved regions of mammalian IL-10 homologues and the torafugu IL-10 genomic sequence, we isolated a clone of 440 bp (resem-bling mammalian IL-10) from carp head kidney cells stimulated with LPS and concanavalin A [18] The 5¢ and 3¢ termini of the clone were obtained by anchored PCR This enabled us to clone additional sequences of 145 and
518 bp at the 5¢ and 3¢ ends, respectively Thus, the fully cloned carp IL-10 cDNA consisted of a sequence of
1096 bp comprising a 55 bp 5¢ untranslated region (UTR),
a 543 bp open reading frame encoding an 180 amino acid peptide, and a 498 bp 3¢-UTR (Fig 1) The 3¢-UTR contains two ATTTA inflammatory motifs compared with five such segments in human IL-10 and contains a single typical polyadenylation signal (AATAAA) between nucleotides 1074–1079 The predicted cleavage site of the signal sequence to the mature protein is between Gln21 and Cys22 (Fig 2) The putative carp IL-10 is an 18 000 molecular mass polypeptide with a pI of 7.89 A similar
Fig 2 Alignment of the deduced amino acid sequence of carp IL-10 with other homologues in pufferfish and mammalian counterparts Identical amino acid residues are indicated by dashes (–), while dots indicate gaps that have been introduced for optimal alignment IL-10 signature motifs are shown in the box The position of A–F helices that has been determined in human IL-10 is shown as a ladder in the alignment Cysteines from the matured proteins forming disulphide bonds are denoted as numbers relative to their positions The arrowheads depict the residues important for the structural core of the IL-10 gene The underlined amino acid residues are the signal sequences of the respective genes The asterisk indicates the residues important for an interaction with the IL-10R/R1 receptor chain The accession numbers of the IL-10 sequences used in the alignment are as follows: human, NP_000563; cat, AAC64708; rat, CAA43090; mouse, A34853.
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IL-10 sequences (Fig 3) The sequence is deposited with
DDBJ under the accession number AB110780
Genomic structure of carp IL-10
Using the carp primers IL-10-Fw2 and IL-10-Rv2, we
amplified a product of 1.4 kbp from carp genomic DNA
A 1403-bp IL-10 genomic sequence was obtained upon
sequencing of the cloned product using T7 or SP6 primers
(Fig 1) The carp IL-10 is composed of five exons and four
introns, and thus similar to its mammalian counterparts
The exons were positioned exactly to the exons in
mammalian IL-10 Typical intron splice motifs were
observed at the 5¢ (GT) and 3¢ (AG) ends of each intron
The four introns are 150, 242, 444 and 119 bp in length,
respectively However, while the mammalian counterpart
spanned > 5.5 kb, the carp IL-10 was only 2 kb
Structural and phylogenetic analyses of carp IL-10
Alignment of the deduced amino acid sequence of IL-10
with those of mammalian homologues revealed common
structural features (Fig 2) The IL-10 signature sequence motif [KQS]-x(4)-C-[QYC]-x(4)-[LIVM](2)-x-[FL]-[LMV]-x-[DERT]-[IV]-[LMF] is conserved except that the first amino acid is N replaced for [KQS] and M for [LMV] Another conserved motif present in the F-helix, KALGEL-DIL, is conserved in carp IL-10 as in other mammalian IL-10 family members Four conserved cysteine residues in human IL-10 and IL-22 were found to be conserved in carp IL-10 The first cysteine forms a disulphide linkage with the third cysteine found on the D-helix The second cysteine forms a disulphide bond with the fourth cysteine between the D–E helix A high degree of conservation is seen around the C-terminal region, especially at the F-helix of the mammalian counterparts
Comparatively high homology was recorded to torafugu (43.2%) and spotted green pufferfish (37.6%) Low sequence identities of 20–28% were observed for mam-malian and viral IL-10 homologues Very low sequence identity of 12–21% was seen in members of the IL-10 family (Table 2) Phylogenetic analysis was carried out by neighbor joining and thePAUPsoftware (Fig 4) IFN-c was used as
an outgroup, as this gene is structurally related to IL-10 Expression analysis of IL-10 by RT-PCR
RT-PCR was used to analyse expression of the IL-10 gene
in normal (healthy) tissues of carp (Fig 5) Using the primers IL-10-Fw3 and IL-10-Rv3 (Table 1), a 284 bp product was obtained from head kidney, spleen, intestine and gill tissues; however, a more pronounced expression of carp IL-10 was observed in head kidney and intestine tissues A semiquantitative analysis of IL-10 expression in head kidney and liver tissues was carried out using a time course in vitro stimulation with LPS (Fig 6) A relative increase of IL-10 gene expression was seen at 1 h poststim-ulation and showed a slight decrease at 3 h, producing a low intensity product at 6 h in head kidney In liver, the IL-10
Fig 3 Hydropathy plot of putative IL-10 proteins from carp, torafugu
and human The x-axis denotes the residue position and the y-axis
represents hydrophobicity The hydrophobicity analysis was carried
out according to the Kyte and Doolittle method [22] using GENETYX
software.
Table 2 Identities of cellular, viral and family members of interleukin (IL)-10 to the carp gene.
Species
Accession number
Identities to carp IL-10 (%) Overall Mature Torafugu CAD62446 43.2 45.7 Spotted green pufferfish CAD67773 37.6 39.3
Virus IL-10 homologues Human Epstein–Barr virus IL-10 CAA24863 27.4 26.9 Equine herpes virus type 2 IL-10 AAB26148 28.0 26.6 Human cytomegalovirus CAA24863 27.0 25.7 Human IL-10 family members
IL-20 NP_061194 21.9 19.0
IL-26 NP_060872 16.9 15.0
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for the 0 h control The highest level of expression was seen
at 1 h post-LPS stimulation of liver cells
Discussion
IL-10, a helical cytokine, was initially isolated by
Mos-mann [25], in humans, and then subsequently in mouse,
rat and other mammalian counterparts [26–28] In the present work we isolated and characterized a carp cDNA sequence that is homologous to the DNA sequence of mammalian IL-10 Carp IL-10 is 1096 bp in length and encodes a 180 amino acid protein similar to that of torafugu and mammalian counterparts Compared with other family members containing the IL-10 gene, human IL-19 and IL-24 encode longer polypeptides of 215 and
206 amino acids, respectively; these polypeptides are longer because they contain an additional in-frame methionine codon upstream as a result of alternative splicing [29] Carp IL-10 shares a higher similarity to mammalian IL-10 (25–28%), when compared with the other IL-10 family members (16–21%) Spotted green pufferfish IL-20 (AY294560) and IL-24 (AY294560) share identities of 16 and 20% with carp IL-10, which is low when compared with the torafugu IL-10 gene Phylo-genetic analyses reveal that the carp IL-10 sequence is closer to human and pufferfish (torafugu and spotted green pufferfish) IL-10 sequences Pufferfish and carp IL-10 genes, clustered together and distant from 20 and
IL-24, as recently determined from analysis of the spotted green pufferfish genome, imply that the carp sequence is IL-10 The hydropathy analysis also shows similarity of the torafugu IL-10 sequence to its carp counterpart These comparisons suggest that carp IL-10 shares many char-acteristics of IL-10 with its family members
The general IL-10 signature sequence comprises a 21 amino acid sequence that is conserved in the carp IL-10 sequence The first residue in the IL-10 signature sequence is Lys, except for carp, in which it is Asn The seventh residue
is His in all three fish sequences, but Gln in mammals The second motif (KALGELDL) on the F-helix, which is conserved in all other family members, is conserved in carp IL-10 Regions that form the helices in the human IL-10 sequence show a degree of similarity to the carp IL-10 sequence The most highly conserved stretch in the IL-10 family is at the C-terminus in the C-helix and at the N-terminus of the F-helix; a similar pattern was also found in carp IL-10
By X-ray crystallographic studies, human and viral homologues of IL-10 are known to have a structure similar
to that of IFN-c, i.e a noncovalent symmetric homodimer that forms V-shaped dimers [30,31] The monomers are characterized by two disulphide bonds and six a helices The structurally important cysteine residues, which form the disulphide bonds, are all conserved in carp IL-10 The residues reported to be key in stabilizing the structural core in IL-10 and IFN-c (Leu, Phe, Tyr and Ala), are also strictly conserved in carp IL-10
Genomic analysis revealed that the carp IL-10 gene contained four introns, which is similar to the human IL-10, IL-20 and IL-26 gene sequences The intron/exon areas are also conserved in carp IL-10; however, the introns were more compact in carp IL-10 than in its mammalian counterparts IL-22, IL-19 and IL-24, which are also family members of IL-10, contain five introns This confirms that the carp gene cloned in this study is, in fact, IL-10, as it has the same intron/ exon structure as human IL-10 (Fig 7) and shows a higher homology with IL-10 than with IL-20 or IL-26
The presence of the instability motifs are known to influence mRNA half-life and translational efficiency
Fig 5 Expression patterns of the common carp IL-10 gene from
unstimulated organs studied by RT-PCR b-Actin was used as a control
of the amount and quality of cDNA.
Fig 4 An unrooted phylogenetic tree constructed by the neighbor
join-ing method (usjoin-ing PAUP software) from the amino acid sequences of the
IL-10 family together with the carp IL-10 gene The numbers indicate
the bootstrap confidence values obtained for each node after 1000
replications The accession numbers of the sequences used in the
alignment are as follows: from humans, Epstein–Barr virus IL-10
(CAA24863), IL-10 (NP_000563), IL-19 (AAG16755), IL-20
(NP_061194), IL-22 (AAK62468), IL-24 (AAG41401),
IL-26 (NP_060872) and interferon-a (P01579); from torafugu IL-10
(CAD62446); from spotted green pufferfish IL-10 (CAD 67773), IL-20
(AY294557) and IL-24 (AY294560); and from carp IL-10 (AB110780).
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comparison to five in human IL-10, in the 3¢-UTR
Whether this difference in the number of instability
motifs affects translation needs to be investigated in
future studies
LPS induction alone, and costimulation with LPS and
IFN-c or IL-13, resulted in expression of the human IL-10
gene However, when human monocytes were stimulated
with LPS (100 ngÆmL)1) alone, strong expression was not
seen until 2–4 h after stimulation [2] In our study, we
observed IL-10 gene expression in spleen, head kidney, gill
and intestine from healthy tissues of carp When stimulated
with LPS, an increase in expression at 1 h poststimulation
was recorded in both head kidney and liver This indicates
that the gene is inducible by LPS stimulation
Administra-tion of endotoxin induced IL-10 producAdministra-tion in mice,
chimpanzees, baboons and humans [32–35] The presence
of endogenous IL-10 confers protection from the lethal
effects of endotoxin challenge and reduces the levels of
TNF, IFN-c and macrophage inflammatory protein-2 [36]
Although the expression study indicates that this cytokine is
involved in the immune response, further experiments on
the regulatory mechanisms of carp IL-10 expression and its role in the regulation of other pro-inflammatory genes, such
as TNF and IFN, in fish, need to be conducted
In conclusion, the IL-10 gene from carp has been isolated and its genomic structure and expression analysis investi-gated This work will pave the way for further investigation
of the biological function of this gene, and the probability of the presence of IL-10-related genes in fish, as seen in mammals
Acknowledgements
This study was supported, in part, by a grant from the Research for the Future (JSPS-RFTF 97L00902) program from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
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